Why these courses are different
These are independent courses, not accredited programs, and that is deliberate. They teach rights-based practice from a place no formal curriculum can: the intersection of lived experience of homelessness and senior professional standing. A certificate here is not a generic credential. It signals specialized, lived-experience-led study from the source.
Foundations
FreeLived Experience to Effective Advocacy
Turn what you already know into change. Housing is a right, not a report card.
Trauma-Informed Care, In Everyday Life
What trauma actually does, and how to treat people, including yourself, with that in mind.
Being Valued, Not Just Visible
The difference between being included and being used, and what fair value looks like.
Speaking Up for Yourself, Without Fighting Your Own Body
Self-advocacy that works with your nervous system, not against it.
Intermediate
Free · for practitionersResearch Literacy: Finding and Judging Trustworthy Sources
Find, judge, and responsibly use research, statistics, and sources, so the case you make rests on ground that holds.
Intersections: Climate, Disability, Race, Immigration, Aging, and Housing
Recognize how housing instability compounds with disability, race, immigration, aging, and climate, and adjust your practice.
Peer Advocacy and Supporting Others
Support others through systems and crisis while respecting their autonomy and protecting your own boundaries.
Communicating with Media, Public Comment, and Testimony
Represent a program to media, public comment, and testimony with accuracy, message discipline, and consent.
Expert
Free · for organizations & systems leadersBuilding or Joining a Coalition
Build and govern cross-organization coalitions for sustained, equitable, structural change.
Policy Analysis Through a Rights Lens
Read, critique, and act on housing and homelessness policy through a structural, rights-based lens.
Facilitation and Capacity Building
Deliver this curriculum to a room and build the capacity of others to carry the work forward.
Each course awards a certificate of completion. These are independent courses; the certificates are not accredited credentials and do not confer continuing education credit or licensure. Their value is the specialized, rights-based, lived-experience-led training they represent.